29 Dec 1944
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Newspaper
Seymour Daily Tribune
Location
Seymour, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
1
Forecasters predict a slight rain and warmer trend for Saturday though ice remains on outdoor surfaces. Residents fear renewed slick sidewalks and streets as activity slows and many cancel plans. Only a few, including sled enthusiasts and ice skaters, venture outside while most stay home.
Funeral services for Charles M Elkins sixty six of Bedford area will be held Saturday at Elmwood Chapel with Rev Claude Reuter and Rev Melvin Miller in charge. Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery. Survived by widow Ethel Thurman six sons a daughter two brothers three sisters and one granddaughter. Born September 2 1878 in Jackson county he worked for the Lawrence county highway department. He died Tuesday night at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital after a yearlong illness. He was a member of the Dive Christian Church.
Katherine A Quinn died at Schneck Memorial Hospital at 9 36 this morning after a two year illness. She was the daughter of David and Mary Quinn and the last of seven siblings. A life long member of St Ambrose Catholic Church her funeral will be Tuesday morning January 2 at 9. Burial in Riverview Cemetery. Rosary 745 Monday night. Friends may call at Voss Mortuary Sunday afternoon.
Plans were completed for the Seymour Boys' Club holiday party tonight from 6 to 9 at the North Chestnut street club. Over 100 boys are expected despite bad weather. Each boy brings his own plate spoon and cup. After dinner group games will follow the usual activities under directors Joe Bill and Malcolm Mason.
Two Jackson county young men, Elder Surenkamp and Eugene Sage, were wounded in action in December and December 17 in France and Germany while serving with the Third Army. Surenkamp, awarded the Bronze Star in September for heroic action, has 31 months service and was trained at Camp Wolters. Sage, also a Bronze Star recipient, is a tank destroyer gun commander with 15 months overseas, and is related to local families in Crothersville.
Indiana flood control commission urges creation of a permanent state body to handle flood and water resources. A 20 member board would include 10 gubernatorial appointees, five from each major party, plus ten ex officio members led by officials from state departments and Purdue University. A special committee was named to consult with GOP leaders and the governor elect on bill details.
Republican policy committee in Indianapolis aired views on major points of a proposed new state election code to be introduced in the 1945 general assembly next week. Critics questioned judges appointing county election officials and the need for a full-time executive officer on county and state commissions.
Posthumous Air Medal and oak leaf cluster awarded to Sgt. Charles W. Tungeitt for his service as a gunner in the Army Air Forces. Presentation at Freeman Field by Col. E. T Rundquist to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Tungeitt of Seymour Rhode Island. Also present were Floyd Tungeitt, Capt. William H. McLeod, and Lt. Verena Simpson. The family notes two other sons serve in New Guinea and Europe.
Official low temperature reading comes from Miss Louise Ahtlert government weather observer in Seymour. Downtown thermometer gives unofficial maximum. River level from Seymour Water Co pumping station at Rockford. River stage 2 inches above low water mark.
Don F. Stiver, state director of public safety, appeals to Indiana residents to show restraint as 1945 begins. He cites fourteen deaths over Christmas weekend from traffic, aviation, and drownings, with ice and snow making travel hazardous. Motorists are urged to drive sanely, keep windshields clear, follow signals, and carry sand, a shovel, tire chains, and tow gear.
Local motorists appear to continue observing the thirty-five mile per hour national limit as the Office of Defense Transportation abandons plans to raise it to forty-five. Tire shortages drive the policy, with only trucks carrying war supplies allowed to exceed the limit by using an emergency pennant. Federal enforcement is lacking. Indiana’s average speeds top the national figure.
John A. Wargon a forty year old fireman from Elkhart died after a locomotive exploded while his Peacemaker passenger train. Engineer Robert F. Donnell of Chicago was killed in the blast.
Montgomery Ward and Company properties in seven cities were seized by presidential order and placed under army control amid a dispute over government seizure of the mail order firm. Chairman Sewell L Avery denounced President Roosevelt authority and pledged to seek court review while government moves to settle a war labor board dispute in the courts continue. Also reported is the death of Ella Ann Inman, seventy five, from stove fire burns in Bedford Indiana.
At the Seymour Lions Club ladies night program Frank Mattox named A L Jackson as chairman. Miss Rosemary Keach sang The Lords Prayer with her mother Mrs Glenn Keach and impressed attendees. Lion Paul W Rigsbee introduced a high school production The Clock Shop a musical fantasy about clock inhabitants in story and song led by Margaret Lou Taskey Charles Bud Woolls Nancy Hancock Dick Hyatt William Davis Mitchel Chetel and Jeanne Blair.
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, after aiding decisive hits at the Philippines sea, predicts a major Pacific war turn by next summer with Japan likely on an uneasy throne. Admiral Nimitz reports fresh Japanese air raids on Saipan and another American air strike on Iwo Jima as Gen. MacArthur continues ground mop up and air sweeps in the Philippines.
American armored units broke Von Rundstedt's offensive spearheads pushing them back beyond ten miles and across the Lesse and Homme rivers toward Rochefort. Dispatches say the German escape gap near Bastogne narrowed to under seventeen miles, as Patton's Third Army drove twenty miles into the German flank in six days.
Soviet and German forces clashed in Budapest with house to house fighting described as unequaled since Stalingrad. Berlin said the garrison defended the heart of the city while Soviet attacks breached defense rings and pushed toward Danube approaches.
Allied headquarters reported reduced fighting in the Serchio Valley where a German counteroffensive had driven the Fifth Army from Barga. The four day drive toward Lucca was slowed with areas around Gallicano and Fornaci contested. Canadian Corps in the Po Valley claimed at least 4,800 enemy troops knocked out and 145 square miles cleared since December.
War Production Board considers a Louisville area recommendation to relocate the Indiana Ordnance Works addition due to labor shortages. Col. Kelly Lewis says no removal plans exist and construction continues. The project would need about 6,500 new construction workers and 5,000 production staff.
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